British

Matt Weston

Matt Weston

Robert Half
Managing Director, UK
British

As managing director, UK, for Robert Half, Matt Weston works alongside UK leadership teams to focus on enhancing company culture and retaining the best talent. Weston aims to enhance the careers of Robert Half’s people by harnessing the opportunities emerging out of the economic recovery. Weston is on the board of Bristol tech startup Hapori, which focuses on personal training and fitness. He also heads the company’s fundraising initiatives with Mind and Make-A-Wish, as well as increasing the organisation’s impact on skills and employability through partnerships with Multiverse and Amazon Web Service.

Staffing 100 Europe | 2021

Ged Mason

Ged Mason

Morson Group
CEO
British

Staffing 100 Europe | 2020

CEO Ged Mason has led €942 million Morson Group since 1999, taking over from his late father and company founder, Gerry Mason. The company’s mission is to provide world-class talent and design consultancy services. It achieves continued growth, with Ged Mason leading the strategic vision emphasising the right cultural fit and family values along with the delivery of opportunities. Continuing his father’s legacy, the Morson Group is one of the industry’s best success stories, which saw Mason appointed Officer of the Order of the British Empire in recognition for his services to engineering and design.

Matt Weston

Matt Weston

Robert Half
Senior Managing Director, UK&I, Benelux and UAE
British

The pandemic provided Matt Weston, senior managing director, UK&I, Benelux and UAE, with the opportunity to help rebuild Robert Half’s employee value proposition, develop employee career pathways and create a rewarding work-life balance for its people. In the past year, his team has added more than 70 staff members in the UK, adding to its global offering. He also collaborates with AWS re/Start — which aims to build an inclusive and diverse global pipeline of new cloud talent by helping 29 million people globally grow their cloud computing skills for free by 2025 — and helps its graduates launch entry-level cloud careers.

Staffing 100 Europe | 2022

Kelly Morton

Kelly Morton

Impellam Group Plc
Portfolio CEO, STEM
British

Kelly Morton was appointed as CEO of Impellam Group’s portfolio of STEM businesses in the UK and Europe in October 2020 and has since embedded a culture of collaboration within STEM and unified best practices across three brands to drive mutual growth. She joined SRG, Impellam’s clinical and life sciences brand, in 2000, and became managing director in 2009, where she took SRG from a niche UK science recruitment company to a global STEM recruitment network. Morton is passionate about creating a culture of empowerment and radical candour. By always asking “Is there a better way?” she champions a growth mindset, where ideas can come from anywhere.

Staffing 100 Europe | 2021

Nigel Heap

Nigel Heap

Hays U.K. & Ireland
Managing Director

Nigel Heap is managing director of Hays U.K. & Ireland and chairman of Hays Asia Pacific. Heap has been with the company since 1988. In 1997, he was appointed managing director of Hays Australia, plus New Zealand in 1999, Hong Kong and China in 2006, Japan and Singapore in 2007 and Malaysia in 2012. In 2006, Heap was appointed managing director of Asia Pacific and joined the group management board.

Alan Savage

Alan Savage

The Orion Group
Founder & Chairman

Alan Savage formed Inverness-based Orion Group in 1987 to serve the booming engineering sector. The award-winning group now operates across a number of industry sectors — oil and gas, power and utilities, energy, rail, IT, mining, office and commercial and construction and infrastructure — placing over 4,000 contractors every year via its offices throughout Europe, the Americas, the Middle East, Asia Pacific and Africa. In the last three years, Orion has supported and donated over £1.5 million to worthwhile projects and charities. Early in his career, Savage worked his way through the engineering ranks as a mechanical technician followed by a stint as a sales and marketing consultant.

Laurence Kirk

Laurence Kirk

PRO Unlimited
VP, EMEA/APAC
British

Known for making complicated staffing problems feel simple, Laurence Kirk serves as vice president, EMEA/APAC for Magnit (formerly Pro Unlimited), the industry’s fourth-largest contingent workforce management provider with more than $21 billion in spend under management. He joined Magnit in September 2020. Passionate about driving change and a leading expert on workforce solutions and international strategy, Kirk helps clients prepare for the talent challenges of tomorrow by sharing his 20-plus years of industry expertise paired with innovative solutions for managing the entire CW ecosystem. Kirk previously held MSP and RPO leadership roles at Capita and Allegis Global Solutions.

Staffing 100 Europe | 2022

Nigel Heap

Nigel Heap

Hays plc
Managing Director, EMEA and UK & Ireland; Chairman Asia Pacific
British

Staffing 100 Europe | 2020

Nigel Heap is managing director EMEA and UK and Ireland, chairman Asia Pacific for Hays, the sixth-largest staffing firm in the world with global revenue of €6.5 billion. Heap has been a member of the Hays management board for many years and is responsible for 16 of the 33 countries in Hays. He joined Hays UK in 1988 as a trainee consultant. A few promotions later, in 2012, Heap was appointed UK & Ireland managing director and chairman of the Asia Pacific business, and in 2017 he was appointed managing director of 12 countries in the EMEA region.

Carmen Watson

Carmen Watson

Pertemps
Chair & Managing Director
British

Staffing 100 Europe | 2020

Carmen Watson, chair and managing director of Pertemps, joined Pertemps in 1976 as a secretary and was later responsible for the corporate business team and growing turnover to £323 million from £32 million between 1983 and 2000. In 2018, Watson was named Director of the Year by the Institute of Directors in West Midland and received the Lifetime Achievement Award at the REC IRP Awards in London. She is trustee and chair of the Women in Business patrons’ group, board member of Race for Opportunity charity as well as a strong advocate for diversity and inclusion in the workplace.

Albert Ellis

Albert Ellis

Harvey Nash Group
CEO

Albert is CEO of the Harvey Nash Group, which had revenue of nearly £700 million in its most recent fiscal year. Ellis was originally appointed to the board in 2000 as CFO and then became CEO in 2005. In 1998 he joined Harvey Nash from Hays plc. Prior to that he worked in the accounting and auditing profession after qualifying as a chartered accountant. He is also on the board of Asia House and is an advisor at London City University’s Cass Business School masters in information leadership course.